The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Burnham]

Nice going, both of you.

We finished the polyporus squamosus infected maple at the castle today.

That is one mean fungus. The tree looked perfectly fine untill it dropped a huge branch 3 feet from one of the gardeners.( At the castle they call him the cat with 8 lives left, now!)

Richard climbed it and found that the whole middle stem was totally mushy inside, so setting a high block for lowering was out.

The castle crew covered up the statue under the tree ( which apparently pissed it off somewhat) and we stripped enough off of the tree that we could drop the rest without causing too much collateral damage.

Since European maple doesn't hinge well, I used a block/gap face, a couple of wedges and a pull line running so far through the park that I had to communicate with the puller by cell phone.

The log went to a bunch of local woodturners, since it wasn't good enough to tempt a sawmill this time of the year.

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Sweet piece of work, Stig. Major kudos, my friend.

 

[Maximalist]

 

[MasterBlaster]

Vodka thirty!

 

[Maximalist]

Vodka thirty!

Vodka - a sediment!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Andrew, that large tree doesn't allow the cutter to have two alternate escape routes, not even one.

 

[squisher]

That is awesome. Nice!

 

[BOTS]

nice work maximalist!

 

[pete mctree]

Great work

 

[BOTS]

Was just finishing up a chipping job today when HO's neighbor drops by and ask me if I climb ( I aint no bucket baby lol) yes I do, he points over at this massive Blue Oak (man I was excited) and needed some deadwood out and inspect branch that has a rope swing attached.....cool Ill be over in a few...

 

[BOTS]

looked to be an easy 5ft + trunk on this feral pig

 

[squisher]

Ha cool! That would be a hell of a lot better than chipping that's for sure!

 

[BOTS]

squish, ya, so glad it wasnt a boring hot chip day only...I must climb!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice tree!

 

[Bodean]

Nice Oaks.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Really nice blue oak.

 

[BOTS]

Thanks all, that was a fun one to climb!

 

[Maximalist]

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow.

 

[Maximalist]

Wow.

Urbaristika

 

[BOTS]

nice

 

[Tucker943]

Whew! Those are removals, right?

 

[BOTS]

I think just a "Light" prune with spikes...LOL

 

[Maximalist]

I think just a "Light" prune with spikes...LOL

Without spikes...

 

[woodworkingboy]

No offense, but I usually see that type of pruning when there are farmers in the area.

 

[BOTS]

Without spikes...

LOL, good one Max, I like your sence of humor )